Yu Gi Oh! Tag Force: The National Championships!

by KaiMichaels

The National Duel Monsters Championships in the United Kingdom has begun, but things aren't what they seem! The tournament has been created in a tag team format! Duelists will duel together, and not against each other! Who will win it all?

1. A Winning, Combination!

YU-GI-OH! TAG FORCE:The National Championships

Season One

Created & Written By: $o Cal Val

Episode 1.1: "A Winning, Combination!"

Our scene opens up inside a quiet local high school hallway with silver metal lockers on either side of the halls, a bell rings as the once quiet hallways turn to noisy hallways, as thousands of students are seen exiting individually classrooms on either side with paper flying around and laughter heard. We follow a young girl named Vicki Car-Michael, who leaves her classroom wearing a teddy bear made backpack; she has long mousy blond straightened hair and is appears to be quite beautiful though dressed in the traditional school uniform. She is reading some of her notes from class, she brushes some strands of her hair behind her ear continuing to read.

Voice: "Hey! V! Wait up would ya..."

Another girl with long black hair named Alyssa Jenkins, who also appears to be quite attractive is seen catching up to Vicki to the side of her. She taps Vicki on the shoulder..

Alyssa: "Earth to Vicki..Hello!"

Vicki snaps out of her train of thought with Alyssa waving in her face; Vicki then looks at Alyssa with a smile.

Vicki: "Oh, Hiya! Sorry, I was reading my notes from Ms. King's class! So I my homework actually makes sense, since half the stuff in her class makes my head hurt! (She laughs) Do you understand, what she says babe?"

Alyssa: "(Smiling) Yes, and no. But your one of the smartest people in the school, Vicki! So it'll be a breeze for you! Even geniuses struggle sometimes, hey look at me right? (She laughs)"

Vicki: "Me a genius? I don't think so."

Alyssa: "Vix! What have a I told you, negativity...BAD!"

Vicki: "(Smiles)..I know, but I can't help it."

Alyssa: "I suppose not!"

Alyssa looks out infront of them, as her facial expression soon turns to a less then impressed look on her face.

Alyssa: "Well, well..jerk patrol at 7 o'clock."

Vicki: "Huh?"

Alyssa: "Look..."

Vicki looked over to where Alyssa is observing, she rolls her eyes. An attractive young man is seen wearing a white & red sports' jacket, which all the athletic students wear to show they are part of various sports' teams in the school with his school uniform underneath, which consists of: a white t-shirt, black trousers and shoes. Danny has short-brown hair, which is gelled forward. Danny is talking to a few girls laughing, a little to himself.

Vicki: "Your right there, babe. If it isn't Danny Granger. I hate that guy."

Alyssa: "Ditto. Too bad, he doesn't hate you. Let's go, before he notices us."

Vicki: "Agreed."

Vicki & Alyssa look away from Danny, as they are not far from the school's entrance doors. They walk past Danny, but catches Vicki out of the corner of his eye and then tells, the girls he was talking to he'll call them. Danny begins walking over to the two girls, who have their backs to him but eventually catches up to them, before they leave..

Danny: "Ladies! What's the matter, no hello or even a goodbye?! I'm hurt."

Vicki & Alyssa stop walking, then roll their eyes and then turn around to face the young sports' star with fake smiles.

Alyssa: "Oh, I'm sorry, Danny. We didn't see you there, our bad.

Danny: "Right, sure you did. Hey, Vicki how are you? (He smiles at her)"

Vicki: "Fine, thanks. You?"

Danny: "I'm good. Did you hear about, Kaiba's new tournament, girls?"

Alyssa: "As a matter of fact, we did. I take it your be entering it, Danny?"

Danny: "But of course, I'm the regional champ, after all. So I have too."

Alyssa: "(Fake smiles)..Yeah, that's unfortunate."

Danny: "Ha-ha! Your a funny girl, Jenkins."

Alyssa: "I try."

Danny: "So, can I expect to see you there, Vicki?"

Vicki: "Maybe, I don't know."

Danny: "What? You can't miss this, Vicki. You just can't, I need some good competition."

Vicki: "Well, I have school work and stuff, you know like everyone else."

Danny: "True. But, this the first-ever, National Duel-Monsters championship! Duelists from, all over the world will be present. It's a great opportunity."

Vicki: "I know."

Danny: "Then, there's no buts about it! I'll see you at the preliminaries tomorrow, alright? Later."

Danny takes his leave, as he catches up with a couple of his male buddies. Vicki stands there looking down at the floor, as Alyssa looks at her friend with a little concern..

Alyssa: "Vicki, are you okay?"

Vicki: "I'm fine, don't worry. Let's go, I told my mum I'd be home by 4pm to help her around the house, so have a few things to do between now and then."

Alyssa: "Okay, cool. Don't forget, it's Friday night! So sleepover at my house, okay?"

Vicki: "(I smiled)..I remember 8pm, sharp! I'll be there."

Alyssa: "Good! See you tonight, babe! We can talk about the preliminaries, and what decks we should use okay?"

Vicki: "Okay, sounds good. Bye."

Alyssa: "See ya, later."

Alyssa exits the school with a jog, leaving Vicki by herself in the halls. She sighs, as she walks out of the school holding her folder flat against her chest with both arms. An hour passes, it is now 3:00pm in the afternoon as our scene opens up by the local riverbank, where high-school jock Danny is seen wearing a duel disk on his left arm, he has changed his clothes to a pair of blue jeans, a black vest top with a pair of silver dog tags around his neck showing off his medium build and is wearing a pair of black trainers. Danny is on the phone, as we listen in on his conversation...

Danny: "Ah man, I'm really excited about the new National Championship tournament, Kaiba has set up! New competition will do my game good! The preliminaries are tomorrow, I'm at the riverbank at the moment waiting on Dean we'll both going to a bit of training, before the competition tomorrow. Your gonna be there right, sis? Watch, your little brother kick some dueling butt like any champion would...Excellent! I can't wait to see you, it's been ages! Alright, see you tomorrow! Love ya!"

Danny hangs up with a smile on his face, a couple of shadowed legs appear behind him, behind each other. Danny turns around, after putting his mobile phone away. He looks up, then notices to cloaked figures infront of him at a safe distance. Danny's facial expression becomes perplexed..

Danny: "Err—Can I help you, fellas?"

A sadistic smile is seen underneath both of the figures hoods..

Voice 1: "You are, Danny Granger the regional duel monsters champion, are you not?"

Danny: "Maybe, who's asking?"

Voice 2: "That is none of your concern..we challenge you to a duel, do you accept?"

Both cloaked figures reveal black duel-disks from underneath their cloaks with smiles on their faces.

Danny: "What? Both of you at once?"

Voice 1: "But of course, let's see if you really are all that good!"

Danny: "(His thoughts)..This is nuts, I can't take them both on. It doesn't look like, they play fair. This is bad. I need some help."

Not to far from the riverbank, Vicki is seen walking down the path with a book bag she too has changed her clothes which consisted of a red tracksuit with a white low cut top underneath her tracksuit jacket wearing a pair of white trainers. She has a yellow back-pack on over her shoulders. She looks over and stops instantly, she sees Danny being cornered by two hooded men..

Vicki: "(Muttering to herself)..Danny?! What's going on? (She notices duel disks, then we enter her thoughts)..Duel disks?! No way..there not gonna gain up on him are, they? That's not fair! Especially, when they look like that! He looks like, he could use some help...but me & Danny partners? I must be flipping, crazy! I can't stand that guy, but that doesn't mean I like seeing other people being bullied like this! (She rolls her eyes leaving her thoughts)..He so owes me, after this!"

Vicki began to jog over to a worried Danny, as I stopped on the green at a short distance from all three of them..

Vicki: "Hey! What's happening? Who are your friends, Danny?"

Danny: "(Noticing me)..Vicki?! What are you doing here? It's dangerous."

Voice 1: "Who are, you?"

Vicki: "Me? Oh, I'm Vicki! Nice Halloween costume, where can I get one?"

Danny: "Vicki!"

Voice 2: "How dare you.."

Vicki: "Listen, I don't think it's fair you guys teaming up against Danny like this! So how about I join in on the fun, Me & Danny Vs. You guys, you game?"

Danny: "(Surprised) What?"

Voice 1: "I think---"

Vicki: "Think, what? You scared?"

Voice 1: "What?! No! Fine! Let's DUEL!"

Vicki: "Now, your speaking my language! Looks like, we're partners, Danny."

Voice 2: "You will pay for you insolence, little girl!"

Danny: "Vicki—I--"

Vicki: "Danny, don't worry about me! Just worry about yourself, okay? (He nodded)..Good. Then, let's get this party started!"

Vicki took off her back-pack, then opened it up pulling out a duel disk and equipping it to her arm. She stands up, then takes up a fight stance next to Danny. She places her dueling deck inside the duel disk, she then looks up at her foes with a smirk...

Vicki: "Game on!"

Voice 1: "(places deck inside his duel disk)..Heh, Heh! This should be fun!"

Voice 2: "(places deck inside his duel disk)..This shouldn't take too long!"

Danny: "(places his deck inside his duel disk, as he thinks)..I hope Vicki, knows what's she's doing! At least, I have a chance now..."

Everyone: "DUEL!!"

All four duel disks activate, as everyone draws their first 5 cards.

CHALLENGERS 8000

DANNY & VICKI 8000

Vicki: "Alright, ladies' 1st boys!"

Voice 2: "Very well! Go!"

Vicki: "(Smiling)..I draw!"

Vicki draws her 1st card, then looks at it before making her first move.

Vicki: "Alright, I think I'll kick things off by activating this..(She raises her duel disk, as the field zone tray opens)..The field spell card, known as: Dark World Summit! I thought, I'd fancy a change of scenery!"

Vicki places her field spell card on the tray, as it closes as everything begins to fade with the scene becoming darker with a large summit rising up from the ground behind her. It stops with a dark purple light shining bright at it's peak.

Vicki: "Dark World Summit allows me to discard a "Dark World" monster from my hand to the graveyard once per turn in order to call out, another "Dark World" monster from my deck as long, as it is level 4 or below and summon it straight to my field! So I'll discard, my Beiige: Vanguard of Dark World from my hand to the graveyard to call out my Brron, Mad King of Dark World from my deck in attack mode!"

Vicki discards her chosen card, then pulls out her deck and opens it picking out: Brron, Mad King of Dark World [1800/400] and summoning it to the field in attack mode. Next Vicki's graveyard begins to glow, as Beiige: Vanguard of Dark World [1600/1300] removes itself from the graveyard and Vicki places it on her in attack mode. The cloaked figures wonder, what just happened.

Vicki: "Confused, how the card I discarded ended up on my field? Simple, really..Whenever a Dark World monster is discarded to the graveyard by a card effect, then I'm in luck because it is then special summoned to my side of the field regardless of level or not. But I'm not done, because now I activate the spell cards: Dark World Dealings & Dark World Infirmary!"

She places both cards in her spell/trap card zone, as they appear on the field one after the other.

Vicki: "Now for the fun part, but allow me to explain my two spells here! First up, my Dark World Dealings allows all players to draw 1 card from their deck, but they must then discard one of their hand cards to the graveyard no questions asked! So let's draw, shall we?"

Everyone draws a card from their deck, then discard their desired cards whilst Vicki continues to smile to herself.

Vicki: "Now my other spell card, Dark World Infirmary allows every monster with Dark World in their name gain an extra 500 bonus points in attack and defense, as long it stays on the field. So my monsters get a little boost...

Brron, Mad King of Dark World [2300/900]

Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World [2100/1800]

Vicki: "Next, I'll summon my Scarr, Scout of Dark World in defence mode! And end my turn, your move boys!"

Scarr, Scout of Dark World [1000/1000] materializes onto the field in defense, and gains 500 attack and defense points thanks to Dark World Infirmary.

Voice 1: "Impressive. My draw! (He draws)..I summon Ritual Raven in attack mode!"

Ritual Raven [300/300] materializes onto the field in attack mode.

Voice 1: "Next, I'll activate the ritual spell card: Curse of the Masked Beast! Now by sacrificing 8 stars' worth of monsters, I can summon a certain ritual monster to my side of the field! But guess, what? My Ritual Raven counts, as the whole sacrifice! So I'll bid my feather friend farewell to summon this: The Masked Beast! In attack mode!"

The Curse of the Masked Beast ritual spell materializes onto the field, as it accepts the offering by absorbing Ritual Raven and following a flash of light; The Masked Beast [3200/1800] appears on the field in attack mode.

Danny: "Whoa! That's some serious attack, strength!"

Vicki: "No joke!"

Voice 1: "But lucky for you, no-one can attack you just yet till everyone has had at least 1 turn! So I'll place a card face-down, then end my turn!"

His face-down appears behind his monsters. As Danny gets ready to take his first turn in the duel.

Danny: "Alright, looks like I'm up next! I draw!"

Danny draws a card from his deck, looks at it then makes his first move.

Danny: "First things first, I'm activating the spell card: E-Emergency Call! With this spell, I can take any Elemental Hero monster I want from my deck, then add it to my hand! And I pick, my Elemental Hero Stratos!"

Danny's spell appears on the field, then disappears after he picks his card from his deck and shows it to his enemies. He continues his turn..

Danny: "Next, I'll summon my Elemental Hero Stratos to the field in the attack mode!"

Elemental Hero Stratos [1800/300] appears on the field in attack mode.

Danny: "Next, his special ability to activates so I'm allowed to search through my deck again and pick any Elemental Hero monster I want and add it to my hand! So I'll pick, My Elemental Hero Heat! (He shows it to his foes)..Next, I activate the spell card: Hero's Bond! Now if, I an Elemenal Hero card on the field like my Stratos, then I get a bonus! I can special summon another 2 "Elemental Hero" cards in my hand that are level 4 or below straight to the field, And It looks like, I do! So, I'll special summon my Elemental Heroes: Lady Heat & Heat! In Attack mode!"

Elemental Heroes Lady Heat [1300/1000] & Heat [1600/1200] materialize onto the field in attack mode.

Danny: "Also my Elemental Hero Heat's special ability now kicks in! For every Hero card I got on the field, Heat gains 200 extra ATK points for each one, including himself! So that means he gains 600 extra points, incase isn't your thing!"

Elemental Hero Heat's attack points increase to [2200/1200].

Danny: "Next, I'll lay a face-down card! And that's it! But not before, my Lady Heat's special ability kicks in! You seen during my end phase, you two take 200 points for each "Elemental Hero" monster on our side of the field and I count three! So 600 points of direct damage are coming, your way!"

His face-down card appears behind his three hero cards. As Lady Heat launches a fire ball at the cloaked duellists that splits in two hitting them both, as they lose 600 life points together.

CHALLENGERS 7400
DANNY & VICKI 8000

Cloaked figure #2 takes his turn. He draws, a card from his deck and begins his turn..

Voice 2: "Alright! I activate the spell card: Trap Booster! With it, I can activate a trap card from my hand right now! As long, as I first discard a card to my hand!"

The Trap Booster spell card appears on the field, as the cloaked duellists discards his chosen card from his hand then plays his desired trap card from his hand..

Voice 2: "Now that's out the way, I play the trap: Limit Reverse! This trap allows me to resurrect, a monster from the graveyard that has less then a 1000 points, and since in a tag team duel the graveyard is shared by team-mates! I can bring back, Ritual Raven in attack mode!"

Ritual Raven [300/300] returns to the field in attack mode.

Vicki: "Great, another ritual! I'm assuming!"

Voice 2: "Correct, you foolish girl!"

Danny: "Oh boy, this can't be good.."

Voice: "Next, I'll activate the ritual spell card: Contract with the Abyss! Now, I can ritual summon a DARK attribute monster from my hand without requiring it's normal ritual spell! So, I'll sacrifice my partner's revived raven to call out: Demise, King of Armageddon! In attack mode!"

Danny: "Oh, no! Not him!"

Vicki: "Argh..."

Demise, King of Armageddon [2400/2000] materializes onto the field in attack mode.

Voice 1: "Nice work, partner!"

Voice 2: "Thank you."

They both smiled sadistically to themselves, as the cloaked duellist continued with his turn.

Voice 2: "Now by paying 2000 life points! Demise, can destroy everything on the field apart from himself! Victory is within our grasps young ones!"

Danny: "(His thoughts)..If lose all our cards, we're done for!"

Vicki: "(Her thoughts)..Not good."

Voice 2: "So now, we give up 2000 life points and destroy every card on the field!"

Danny: "Not so fast there, you freak! I've got a trap out..."

Voice 2: "What!"

Vicki: "Huh?"

Danny: "(Smiling)..I reveal my face-down card: Submissive Hero!"

Submissive Hero flips up and activates.

Danny: "See, whenever your about activate a special effect, this trap's effects kicks in allowing me to sacrifice one of my Hero monsters on the field to negate, your effect for this turn! So I sacrifice my Lady Heat to negate it!"

Voice 2: "NOOO!!"

Lady Heat is sacrificed, as the trap launches a sphere of energy and entraps Demise inside it stopping his ability. Elemental Hero Heat's attack power drops to: [2000/1200]

Danny: "(Smiling)..Oh yeah! That's how, we do it!"

Vicki: "(Smiling)..Nice work, Danny!"

Danny: "Hey thanks, partner!"

Vicki: "H mph.."

Voice 2: "Curse you, I place a card face-down! That ends my turn!"

A face-down card appears behind Demise, as the sphere vanishes now it's effect has ceased from around him.

Vicki: "It's my turn, now! I Draw!"

Vicki looks at it, then nods to herself as she continues with her move.

Vicki: "I activate the spell card, Dark World Currency! This spell card allows me to draw 1 card from my deck for each "Dark World" monster on my side of the field and I count 3! So 3 cards for me! (She draws 3 cards from her deck)..I activate, my Trap Booster spell card! So I'll discard, the spell: Dark World Corridor in order to activate the trap card: Dark World Vortex! I can only play this trap card, when Dark World Summit is on the field! Now by destroying, my Summit and paying 500 of my life points! every card on my opponent's field is removed from play!"

Voices 1 & 2: "NOOOOO!!!"

Vicki: "Sorry, but hey what can you do?"

Dark World Vortex materializes onto the field, as my Dark World Summit field spell begins to crumble away quite rapidly with a large black vortex appearing over my opponent's side of the field as everything on their side is sucked into the vortex and taking out of play leaving our opponent defenceless.

Voice 2: "We're defenceless!"

Voice 1: "And the worst part is, we're wide open to an attack!"

Danny: "Excellent move, Vicki!"

Vicki: "Thanks! Now for the fun part, I sacrifice my Scarr: Scout of Dark World to summon: Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World! In attack mode, of course!"

Scarr vanishes into thin air, as Goldd: Wu-Lord of Dark World [2800/1900] materializes onto the field in attack mode and gains 500 additional attack points thanks to: Dark World Infirmary.

Vicki: "I'd say, your time is about up! Attack them directly, my fiends! Show no mercy!"

Goldd, Beiige & Brron do so causing their joint attack to inflict more then 7200 points of damage between them. As the cloaked duellists fall to their knees breathing heavily.

CHALLENGERS 200

DANNY & VICKI 7500

Voice 1: "We'll still standing! Insolent child! Revenge will be ours!"

Voice 2: "Your pay! For that.."

Vicki: "(Smirks)..Oh, please! I'm not afraid of you losers! So, you have 200 life points left, big deal! This duel is still over!"

Danny: "But, how? You can't attack any more this turn, Vicki."

Vicki: "Actually, I can! Thanks to Brron's special ability!"

Danny: "Oh, Yeah! Of course!"

Voice 2: "What ability? Tell us!"

Vicki: "I'll be glad, too! You see, whenever my Brron, Mad King of Dark World inflicts battle damage to my opponent, I can discard 1 card from my hand if I choose! And guess, what I'm going too! Because, the only card in my hand is: Sillva, Warlord of Dark World! (She shows her foes).."

Voice 1: "But that's level 5, discarding it won't help you!"

Vicki: "Wrong, pal! Or did your forget, what I said earlier? Whenever Dark World monsters are discarded from my hand by card effects, they can be special summoned to the field! And my Sillva is just the fiend, I need to end this duel! So I send to the graveyard thanks to my Brron, but don't worry his coming back as I special summon him to the field in attack mode, from my graveyard! Show yourself, my fiend!"

Vicki's graveyard glows, as Sillva, Warlord of Dark World [2800/1900] materializes onto the field in attack mode and gains 500 extra ATK & DEF points, thanks to Dark World Infirmary.

Vicki: "Sillva, end this duel now! Sillva Shadow Slash! Now!"

Sillva attacks them both directly, and reduces their life points to 0, thus winning the duel.

CHALLENGERS 0

DANNY & VICKI 7500

The holograms fade, as Danny & Vicki stand victorious over their foes who inform them, they will return for revenge one day and run off in the opposite direction. Vicki deactivates her duel disk, as does Danny. As he smiles at her, then walks over to her standing next to her.

Danny: "Wow, Vicki! You were amazing back there! Looks like, you didn't really need my help after all! It was all you."

Vicki: "(she closed her eyes)..Wrong, Danny! I couldn't have won this duel for us, if wasn't for your trap card..(She looked at him)..

Danny: "Hey, thanks Vicki..(Continuing to smile at me).. I owe you won, if hadn't come along when you did! I'll be a goner, right now.."

Vicki: "Maybe."

Vicki bends down starting to pack away her duel disk with her deck still inside into her back-pack, before putting it on over her shoulders. Vicki stands up holding her back-packs handles.

Danny: "So, I'll see you at the National Preliminaries, tomorrow?"

Vicki looked Danny in his beautiful brown eyes, then thought for a second then smiled a little to herself.

Vicki: "You know, what Danny..I wasn't going to enter the Nationals, this weekend because all my work.

Danny: "You weren't!"

Vicki: "But this duel reminded me of something, and that's how much fun duelling can be and just how good, I can be sometimes. So yeah sure, I'll see you at the preliminaries tomorrow and who knows, maybe I'll meet you in the finals when it comes down to it"

Danny: "(Taking her hand)..Now that's a duel, I will look forward too. Thanks for your help today, Vicki. It means a lot..(Danny kissed my hand)..Tomorrow, then.

Vicki: "(Blushing a little)..It's alright, it was my pleasure. Tomorrow, it is. Take care now."

Danny: "You too, bye."

Vicki: "Bye."

Vicki and Danny smiled at one another, as she took her leave walking away from him across the riverbank with the sun starting to set slowly with Danny looking on, watching her leave with him quietly talking to himself..

Danny: "Bye...my love."

...TO BE CONTINUED!